A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."
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@npr.org How about "Misdirection and incompetence in service of dismantling govt agencies causes chaos and harm"? And "Alleged search for 'waste' ends in damage to agencies that protect the American people"?
@npr.org Why use the kid gloves? Hoping nobody will notice you? Trump/Musk anti-democratic power play is using ill-intentioned muscle not brains and aims to destroy not to ferret out waste. Has that not occurred to your editorial staff? Surprise! It's a takeover, a coup, not a "suggestion".
How much is DOGE actually costing us? Not just in dollars but in people's lives. By the way, they're not, and no one is refunding any money to you. If anything, this will cost us more, and the oligarchs will benefit.
Senator Bernie Sanders should be enjoying a well earned retirement (from our presidency), but this statesman is as passionate as ever. He does not mince words with the US Congress as only he, with his forty years of standing up to bullies can deliver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTO3XDt2gUs
Stop saying laid off. They were fired. And because musk and his merry band of mailable coders don’t have any clue as to what they are seeing or doing are just firing people.
To be fair, the DoJ is starting to investigate anyone who says ill of the president or Musk as is the case of Rep Garcia getting the "letter of Clarification" from them. Still is cowardly to not outright say it, but its to cover themselves in plausible deniability.
Gotta learn from Chamberlain. It's hard! It's something that takes bravery! But to lie down and quietly, silently let the authoritarian or fascist framing of the world be the one you operate through has an endgame that we've seen play out too many times to a myriad of horrific ends.
I suspect a political act, reminding all Trump is an angry god holding each of us over the flames of economic perdition. He controls our future, so be quiet, you are enslaved.
would love to see what that negotiation looks like. lets see what they do to the post office. that looks like it is also on the chopping block after dejoy destroyed a third of it, mostly in the south and midwest.
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is there no cabinet member of 45/7's coocoo nest who can stand against the insanity?
are the republicans in the hinterlands ok with this?
'26 vote every R complicit with Trump out
if we still have elections
Does anyone else see a problem with this? Scare people into losing their jobs, offer them to back as long as they're willing to swear allegiance to "duh furher"?
“Suggests” mismanagement? It’s a bloody cluster fuck brought to you by 47 and his band of Republican Cretans. 47 & his Heritage Foundation minions must be removed & exiled to a small island in the mediterranean, like Elba.
proof has surfaced that Elon and Trump manipulated election results. the Election Truth Alliance has found through data analysis that the election results were manipulated in all Swing states. And that there should be an audit of Nevada. https://youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo?si=JFuJQbG1195rA5bM
This is what happens when you have a clown car trying to operate a real machine. They have no understanding of how it works, what’s the purpose, and why is it necessary? If you put teenage boys in charge of such operations, you can expect everything to break. Send the teenagers to jail.
fElonia is not the problem. citrus is the problem. Don't give citrus a scapegoat. Impeach citrus. That will automatically get rid of fElonia, because vance is probably tired of being 4th chair.
TRUMP, ELON, THE SUPREME COURT & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAVE PROVEN BEYOND ANY DOUBT TO BE TRAITORS TO THE CONSTITUTION & THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,THEY MUST BE REMOVED, BY FORCE IF NECESSARY & REASSERT REALITY TO AMERICA! ACT NOW!
Btw the only mismanagement is that of Elon Musk, they never met with agency directors or mgrs to see which positions could be cut and absorbed by other teams.
Personally I’d have a hard time coming back because I’d feel betrayed. I’d probably come back if I needed to do so financially and look for a job somewhere else in the meantime. Look for a job where my expertise is appreciated.
Many of us have had that boss who gets hired because of who they know, who makes ridiculous decisions based on a lack of knowledge on how things actually work, and cares even less about who is affected. These are the people running the show now and it’s both terrifying and infuriating.
Anytime christians solely manage governments, services go to shit, just look at red bible belt states. Third world country economic and education indicators. Christians Opress and they don't know it. Ignorance.
I’m aware. What’s your point? You can’t deny they’ve been just as scared to do real reporting as all the others. And they lost their seat in the press room. Everyone is afraid of retribution.
The Republicans afraid of retribution in the form of being primaried by Trump need to look at the reaction from their base at town halls this week and polling. They are pissed at their reps. What makes them think if they're this mad that they'll be happier w/ someone more insane. Stand up to Trump.
Trump is the only one who can stop the "suggested mismanagement"; but he is 100% complicit and doesn't give a f**k about the long-term damage that is being done to the US!
I don’t get it. People should pay taxes. If you’re honest, there’s no problem. DOGE is quite different. More IRS agents will mean audits of the ultra wealthy. DOGE is destroying agencies that help everyday Americans. Eat the rich.
experts should be saying deeper and more nuanced things, like, "this suggests the american people should chase elon musk around washington, d.c. with big clubs"
If I were China or Russia I’d immediately be offering those laid off workers a handsome forever pension thereby cutting the American gov off at the knees.
Honestly who really cares? I’m sitting here doing my taxes and the amount of money I am paying is insane. Layoffs and government cuts sounding pretty good if it lowers these tax rates.
Stop the BS Nazi nonsense. Name calling is what an idiot who can’t make a point does. Is that you? If you’re so pro government spending voluntarily give them more of your money. I like most people would rather spend my own money then have an over inflated government piss it away.
And where did I even hint at my being pro government spending? I personally attacked YOU, not the government. The subject of my comment was YOU... not the government. Please do try to keep up.
NPR,
YOU are absolutely to blame for the normalization of fascist dictator trump.
Fuck you. Even this headline is such garbage. You're not better than nyt
Suggests? When you make a point of hiring the most incompetent people to run our federal agencies, they will 100% be mismanaged. It's one of the signatures of the Republican party: set the house on fire and then point to what terrible condition the house is in while telling you only they can fix it.
What about employees whose importance isn’t immediately obvious the day they are terminated?
If the downsizing efforts are ‘accidentally’ targeting positions that are obviously critical, I have no doubt they are hitting positions that will prove critical in weeks or months.
NPR, I and all others donate for independent journalism and you are going to lose federal funding anyway. Use real language. Call it what it is: gross incompetence. A coup.
We are losing our rights and our democracy because no one is using real language. No one knows how bad it is! Tell us!
I still think when they try to rehire these people if there was someway at all possible, they just told them to stick their job up their ass would be awesome because then they would have to function without the essentials. I know that's hard though because it is people's livelihood.
We no longer have a government. We have a hostile, criminal coup that has decimated what used to be a government. Government implies governing. The despot is not governing. He's wantonly pillaging and ordering with impunity AND immunity.
I was a career public servant. Never had a job where we weren't doing the work of multiple people for a much much smaller salary than it would ever be worth in the not-for-the-common good private sector. This is all so horrifying. 💔
That’s not a suggestion that Trump Nazi American Christian Taliban party is a left-handed goat screw on a daily basis 24 hours a day seven days a week.
Can we please re-word the headlines to be more factual. The agencies didnt initiate the layoffs. Trump and Musk did. Lets put the blame where it belongs and stop pussyfooting around with vague references
Incompetence in DOGE, not in any actual congressionally authorized legitimate parts of the government. But NPR's headline wouldn't want to make that clear.
Anyone who can afford to not go back, shouldn’t.
Besides, for anyone going back - for how long?
Your employment is obviously at the whim of a menace to society and could end at any moment. Who wants to live like that? I hope the majority tell them to FO
@repjasmine.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social sounds like it is past time for Congress to rescind that power from the executive branch. It's time to 'Prince John' that orange fool. Oh and do whatever they did to that idiot sheriff muskrat. Deportation sounds good.
You think? You don’t need an “expert” to determine mismanagement and incompetence here. You’d have to be a total moron or maga supporter (same?) not to come to that conclusion.
Suggests something? Mismanagement of government? The chaos is saying rather directly that "Trump, the apartheid nepo baby, and their racist incels don't know what the fuck they're doing because they have no fucking idea how the federal government works." Fixed it for you. Feel free to quote me.
You don’t say? An unqualified illegal immigrant who huffs dump trucks worth of ketamine and allegedly runs FIVE companies in addition to DOGE isn’t thorough?!?!? No way!
Almost like they should just do a RIF and let agencies and departments do it themselves. They don’t want to, because a RIF would mean they would have to pay out 25K per. Never mind VERA.
I really do feel bad for the saps that took that buyout.
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is there no cabinet member of 45/7's coocoo nest who can stand against the insanity?
are the republicans in the hinterlands ok with this?
'26 vote every R complicit with Trump out
if we still have elections
You're supposed to whack the ball and then not let it smack you in the face.
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No, it SCREAMS of mismanagement!!
Musk should be arrested for impersonating a government official!
Yes, more layoffs!
The corrupt Republican controlled Congress are refusing to their job of oversight. They are letting Musk decide what is called waste of money & fraud.
The media needs to hold them to be accountable, better than they are doing now.
This administration is a kakistocracy.
The only thing we can hope for is not getting attacked while the stupids are in control.
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experts should be saying deeper and more nuanced things, like, "this suggests the american people should chase elon musk around washington, d.c. with big clubs"
#Trump and #Musk are idiots of the highest order.
It's THESE people mismanaging government
THESE people love to make government the self fulfilled, incompetent entitie that they say it is.
It's their mismanagement. Please report on it that way
And is not an expert.
YOU are absolutely to blame for the normalization of fascist dictator trump.
Fuck you. Even this headline is such garbage. You're not better than nyt
If the downsizing efforts are ‘accidentally’ targeting positions that are obviously critical, I have no doubt they are hitting positions that will prove critical in weeks or months.
We are losing our rights and our democracy because no one is using real language. No one knows how bad it is! Tell us!
Balls! 🙄
Having to rescind terminations of employees that should never have been fired is hard evidence of the Musk/Trump incompetence and corruption.
Managers, refuse to fire workers! Close down operations!
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Your precompliance is showing NPR.
Do better.
They’re 100% inept.
GO AFTER HIS MONEY!
Besides, for anyone going back - for how long?
Your employment is obviously at the whim of a menace to society and could end at any moment. Who wants to live like that? I hope the majority tell them to FO
Indeed.
I really do feel bad for the saps that took that buyout.
They pretend like they are surgeons, but they are just hacking away at whole extremities like butchers. Unfortunately, the patient is us.